The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-18

ported ready for action also.
s. II. MALLORY, son of the Stephen r..
Mallory who was in the United States senate
before the war, will probably be elected
United States senator in Florida.
THE Beckwith Iron Works at Paterson,
n. j., were destroyed by fire and 300 men
thrown out of work. The buildings and
machinery were valued at $4,000
THE Maine flood gave the "patent out
side " papers a big scare. The suspension of
traffic gave the plates hard rap. Half and
quarter sheets were not uncommon.
MARTIN BOUT of Michigan City, Ind, was
killed by the explosion of a dynamite bomb
which he plowed up. 1t had been lost sew
eral years ago when blowing up stumps.
The famous old excursion steamer EN-
pire State" was burned to the waters edge
Saturday while lying at her wharf off Bris-
toll, II. l.. loss 100000; insurance $4,000.
EZRA CARTER, one of the oldest citizens
of Portland, died last week Mt the age of
eighty-three. He was formerly of the firm
of Sanborn q Carter, booksellers and pub
fishers.
A CASE of genuine leprosy exists in Free
born, Mimi, the victim being the mother OF
eight children and about to have ninth
The woman inherits the disease from her
mother.
IT is claimed in Chicago that the inter-
state commerce law has hurt the hotel bust
ness forty per cent. In Cincinnati also
the hotel-keepers report falling off in their
business.
THE New York dairy and cattle show
opened in Madison Square Garden last
week with fine showing of blooded cattle,
glt-edged dairy products and notable at
tendance.
NEWS is inst received that the steamer
Benton" plying between Singapoor, Pc
nang and Malacca, was sunk by collision
six weeks ago, and hundred fifty persons,
mostly natives, lost
WENDELL LANSING, senior member of the
! firm of w. Lansing Il Son, publishers of the
ESSer County Republican and Plattsburgh
! Sentinel, died at his home in Keesevile on
Sunday. He was born in 1907.
THERE was slight shock of earthquake
at Summerville and a slight rumbling at
Charleston Thursday night. The vibration
was not greater than would be caused by a
loaded wagon passing along the street.
THE procession of the Army of the Cum
berand in Washington, last Thursday, be-
! fore the dedication of the Garfield statue
was very imposing. The old officers of the
society were reelected, with Sheridan as
president.
The latest Partisan sensation is the exhi-
| bition of mesmeriZed girl in a cage of
lions. The animals are kept in check by a
| tanner, and the unconscious girl is made to
lie down on the beasts and put her head
into the mouth of one
GENERAL AARON f. STEVENS of Nashua
! long prominent man of New Hampshire
died last week, aged nearly sixty-eight
years. He served in the army and in con-
gress, and his death was caused by wounds
received in army service.
SENATOR REAGAN, replying to letter from
! Commissioner Morrison, inviting his atten
ton to the proper Interpretation of section
four of the interstate law, says that the Sec
ton is ironclad, and that the commissioner
is not justified in suspending it.
THE correspondents are specializing about
the presidents choice of successor to Jus
tice Woods A prominent southerner is
confident that Senator Gibson of Louisiana
will be the man, but John Randolph Tucker
of Virginia is oftenest mentioned.
SIX persons at Tucson, Arizona, are known
to have lost their reason since the recent
earthquakes, and physicians report many
more cases of mental disturbance. The feal
and terror among the people, especially the
ignorant classes, are still at high tension.
The family of the late Henry Ward
Beecher are said to have received informa
ton recently of what appeared to be a plot
to steal the body from the receiving vaul
of Greenwood cemetery, and two police
men have since been guarding the vault.
BLUE SPRINGS, Neb., was struck by 6
cyclone Friday. The school-house, churcl
and several other buildings were demol
ished. w. H. Rumbaugh, janitor of tn,
school-house, was killed Mrs. Will Mat
thews was struck by lightning and also in
stantly killed.
THE Garfield statue was unveiled il
Washington, under the auspices of thu
Army of the Cumberland. 1t is of bronz
and of heroic size. General Sheridan pre-
scented the memorial to the country, and ac
ceptance was made by President Cleveland
Il al n11p the
A GANG of men were clearing out the fur
mace at the Edgar Thompson Steel Work
in Pittsburg, Pa, when the arch of coke
limestone and other red-hot material whicl
had formed inside gave way, crushing ant
horribly burning several persons. Three
are dead, two more will die and others ar,
more or less injured.
SCHNABEL & Co. and Sherman & Marsh
two big firms engaged in making barbe
wire, one at Deering Station, H., an,
the other at Grand Crossing, H., have failed
with liabilities aggregating about S755,Ut
The cause of the failure is said to be tn
interstate commerce law, which prevente
the firms getting special freight rates
In a speech at Meridian, Miss, Thursday
Jefferson Davis said; What was the arm
and navy of the South? 1t was the patriot
ism of persons who barred their breasts t
: bullets in defending a constitutional right
With inferior numbers of men we marche
onward hghtlng Tor our rights, anu Dattl
after battle was fought and won, but tn
northern historians never conceded thai
and INDUCED in triumphs of mind over mat
ter. But now those scenes and incident
have passed, and they only live in mind
, and history. United you are now, and
the Union is ever to be broken let the othe
side break it. The army of the South wi
shine forever around the camp-hres, an
will shine to our children and to our chi
dren's children. The truths we fought fo
shall not encourage you to ever fight agai
but to keep your word in good or evil"
! FIRE worked havoc in New Hampshir
: last week. Nearly half the town of Leblanc
was destroyed, about eighty houses bein
burned there, at an estimated loss of 500, OO'
/ The insurance was only $4,000. In Sur
cook fire started in the freight depot, con
municated with other buildings, and tn
sparks arising were blown across the rive
4 and fired several buildings there. The los
> by this fire is put at from $50, 600 to S5O,OO
Then at Bethlehem Junction lumber mi
and several dwellings We're burned, the los
there being estimated at about 100000. A
Newton village twenty-one buildings wei
burned; loss So, 600. At New Boston, o
the 18th, a fire burned the town house,
church, two chapels, one store, shop an
seven dwellings. Mrs. j. Flanders was s.
riously burned, and an old gentleman (J'
seph McLane) sustained serious shock fro
excitement One hundred pounds of powdt
r exploded in the store. The losses aggr
3 gate $4,000 None of the places name
were adequately provided with facilities IL
extinguishing fires, and the amount of il
$ surance was small in proportion to the a